Nothing is more practical than finding God,
that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination,
will affect everything.
Fall in love,
stay in love,
and it will decide everything.
Keep the bishops in your prayers.The USCCB begins its annual plenary session today in Baltimore. On the formal agenda, the bishops will consider a proposed pastoral letter on marriage (which they should scrap and start over) and the final approval of Mass translations (some are good, some not so good but it is past time to fight over them anyway). Behind the scenes, the issue that dominates all the others is the polarization within the Conference, a polarization that seems to have been imported from the political world into the USCCB. The most important thing for the bishops to do this week is to heed the voice of their president, Cardinal George, to resist the political categories of left and right and return to “simply Catholicism.”
In the event, there is a political issue that is tailor-made for the “simply Catholicism” model proposed by Cardinal George: pro-life health care reform. For decades the bishops have backed universal health insurance for all Americans. Since 1973, the bishops have been the leaders, in season and out of season, of the pro-life movement in America. Now, thanks to the 240 members of Congress who voted for the Stupak Amendment banning federal funds for abortion, and the 220 members who voted for the final bill, the possibility of pro-life universal health insurance is that much closer to reality.
Please comment: How do you bring your faith into your home?Wisconsin priest, Fr Dominic Roscioli has partnered with two friends to launch Holy Spirits Wines. The trio's wines, which now are on sale in stores and are being poured in restaurants around southeastern Wisconsin, feature saints matched with wine varietals.
"I was looking for a way to bring the saints marching back into peoples' homes," Roscioli told the Kenosha News. "What I find is there are a lot of people who don't go to church so much, but they're very spiritual. It's a way to get people to reconnect with their Catholic roots."
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The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding a conference on astrobiology, the study of life beyond Earth, with scientists and religious leaders gathering in Rome this week.
For centuries, theologians have argued over what the existence of life elsewhere in the universe would mean for the Church, at least since Giordano Bruno, an Italian monk, was put to death by the Inquisition in 1600 for claiming that other worlds exist, UK's the Telegraph said.
